Free SEO Strategy Offers Consistent Results

Free SEO Strategy Offers Consistent Results

Understanding how to optimize your website for search engines can be a challenge, particularly because search engines seem to change their algorithms as frequently as people change their underwear! There are methods that involve the use of keywords, methods that you pay for, and others that you can do for free. This article will address a free SEO strategy that works consistently – even when search engines keep changing how they determine which sites to reward with the best search positioning.

If you’ve had a website or a blog for awhile, you’ve probably heard the saying “Content is King”. Not only do people use the internet to look up information and find solutions to their problems; but the search engines are focused on content when they’re “deciding” which websites to return in the search listings each time someone types a phrase into a search engine. You can use articles and blog posts to boost your search engine positioning over time. The more consistent you are with this SEO strategy, the better it will work for you.

Article Directories

There are thousands of websites online which exist for the sole purpose of categorizing articles available for web developers and newsletter publishers to re-print. These websites are called article directories. Anyone is able to write articles on the topics of their choice, create an author’s byline (including a link to their own website or blog) and distribute the article to directories. Once the article(s) are in the article directories, they can be found by people who would like to re-print the article on their websites, blogs and newsletters – and as long as they include your author byline and link, they can re-use the article.

Each time the article is published online, you have another incoming link to your website. Most of the time, the links will be coming from websites that are in your industry – so they are weighted more heavily by search engines than if you had a link from a website with a subject matter having nothing to do with your article.

In addition, people who are reading your article(s) on other websites are likely to be interested in what you have to offer – and are likely to click the link to find out more. Article directories can help deliver direct traffic to your website from people reading and clicking on the links.

Write Articles for Other Newsletters or Blogs

In addition to using the article directories, you can also find newsletters and blogs with a large readership volume within your industry, and ask if they’d let you write an article to include. Many times, the blog owner or newsletter publisher is happy to have an article for free, and will allow you to link to your website from the article or in the author byline, provided you write an informative article that is useful to their readers. When contacting blogs for permission to post an article on their site, it’s typically referred to as “guest blogging”. Popular blog owners are likely to be familiar with this term and know what you’re looking to do if you contact them to ask about guest blogging on their site.

Debbie Dragon is a freelance writer providing articles for Trace Media – anSEO New York company specializing in getting websites up, and making sure they perform to their full potential through the use of .

How Can We Handle Duplicate Content With The Help of Canonical Tag?

You have to include the canonical tag in the desired web page’s head section. Here is a look at how you have to include it:

<link rel=”canonical” href=”http://www.xyz.com/product.php?item=the-matrix“/>

You have to however remember that the tag can only be used on the pages that are under a single site. The pages may include sub domains as well as sub folders. You can choose from the absolute and relative links. However, the search engines strongly recommend that you should use the absolute links. This will eliminate chances of any errors in the future.

The tag is transitive in nature. For an instance if you use URL X marks Y as canonical, and Y in turn marks Z as canonical, Z will be treated as canonical for both X and Y.

The Canonical tag is basically applied to the URLs of the web pages that hold a duplicate content. Since they are to be included in the <head> tag of the duplicate pages, you will be simply adding the preferred version of a URL.  This way you actually go ahead and instruct the search engines that the URLs in question should direct to the preferred URL of your choice.

By using the canonical tag, all the links to all the URLs are simply consolidated into one URL which has been specified as canonical. This URL will be considered as a ‘strong hint; by the search engines. The canonical tag will help search engines like Google with the task of identifying the duplicate URLs. They will use it to crawl through and index.

They will also understand that the duplicate URLs with the canonical tag are all actually referring to the URL that you want the visitors to see. Such URLs are known as canonical URLs.

Edward Kung, Owner of Seedin, Vancouver web design Company Which Provides Complete web Development Solutions in Vancouver.

Orkut Google Typo ‘affortable CPM’

I am regular Orkut user and member of OUG community where today I found information about this typo by Google. You can see image below.

I never heard the word Affortable before, may be it is new creation by Google.
You can find this at http://www.orkut.co.in/html/advertise/IN/large.html, if you can’t fine it then don’t blame me, may be its fixed by Google.

Wordpress ‘Baker’ 2.8 Available for Downlaod

From wordpres post – http://wordpress.org/development/2009/06/wordpress-28/

I’m very excited to announce to everyone that the latest and greatest version of WordPress, version 2.8 “Baker,” is immediately available for download. 2.8 represents a nice fit and finish release for WordPress with improvements to themes, widgets, taxonomies, and overall speed. We also fixed over 790 bugs. This release is named in honor of noted trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker

So its time to upgrade my all blogs. They have added 180 features, changes, improments.
You can read the full list of over 180 new features, changes, upgrades, and improvements on the Codex.

They have done a great job again. This is world best blogging and publishing platfarm.

Oracle buys Sun Microsystems

After weeks of speculation of IBM buying out Sun, which failed to produce a result, today Oracle have swept in and bought Sun. The deal is valued at approximately $7.4 billion, or $5.6 billion net of Sun’s cash and debt, with Oracle buying Sun at $9.50 per share.

The acquisition of Sun transforms the IT industry, combining best-in-class enterprise software and mission-critical computing systems,” said Oracle CEO Larry Ellison in the press release, “Oracle will be the only company that can engineer an integrated system – applications to disk – where all the pieces fit and work together so customers do not have to do it themselves. Our customers benefit as their systems integration costs go down while system performance, reliability and security go up.

This is a fantastic day for Sun’s customers, developers, partners and employees across the globe, joining forces with the global leader in enterprise software to drive innovation and value across every aspect of the technology marketplace,” said Jonathan Schwartz, Sun’s CEO, also in the press release, “From the Java platform touching nearly every business system on earth, powering billions of consumers on mobile handsets and consumer electronics, to the convergence of storage, networking and computing driven by the Solaris operating system and Sun’s SPARC and x64 systems. Together with Oracle, we’ll drive the innovation pipeline to create compelling value to our customer base and the marketplace.

source – http://java.dzone.com/news/oracle-buys-sun